RealTime recruitment are seeking an experienced Test Lead on behalf of a top client within the Financial Services Industry.

This permanent role is based in Dublin City Centre, with a flexible hybrid working model.

To be considered for this position you will have a background within the financial services industry and experience leading large teams (10+ team members)

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the QA team responsible for the testing of systems across multiple technologies and platforms.
• Review test strategies and artefacts
• Identify and drive opportunities for test excellence to maximise test coverage and reduce execution times, including identifying opportunities to extend automated testing where appropriate.
• Drive QA process improvements
• Coordinate, plan and provide guidance on the Business Acceptance Test strategy, ensuring appropriate test coverage and no duplication of effort with the FIT phase
• Manage & support the team, coaching and mentoring to ensure they have clear objectives and are motivated to achieve maximum potential.
• Ensure the team are following QA Best Practices and work closely with the QA Practice Lead to ensure test approaches are in line with the overall QA strategy
• Manage & coordinate the efficient usage of the test environments in close collaboration with the Test Environment Manager
• Support regulatory/audit/security QA internally and with external partners as needed

Key Skills

• Minimum 5 years in a Test Lead position
• Expert at leading and managing a team of dispersed QA Engineers, supporting, and ensuring high quality and on-time consistent delivery of software
• Strong Web-application testing experience
• Experience managing the coordination of UAT test effort to ensure there an efficient overall test approach
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise across multiple tasks to tight timelines and to coordinate cross teamwork.
• Excellent quality assurance skills and understanding of QA Best Practices
• Strong communication and delegation skills are a must have
• Exposure to test automation (Selenium with Java)
• Agile experience
• Proficient with the Atlassin toolset (Jira and Confluence)
• Experience with Oracle/ SQL Server

If you would like to hear more about this position, contact Sue on 01-6520652 or email your CV to susan.tobin@realtime.jobs